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Melanie Lo. University of Colorado Boulder. Throughout The Faerie Queene, Spenser melds the overarching narrative of his knights’ quests with distinctly non-poetic forms such as chronicles, genealogies, and prophecy. ... This description foregrounds

My interests are driven by two overarching aims: to forge alternate genealogies and critical frameworks for eighteenth-century literatures by practicing reading in global terms that account for the significance of

Multiple, competing lexical genealogies might well be allowed to share space in an argument (or a poem), and even an avowedly spurious etymology could be valued for its aptness.

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The Limelight of the Idols” thus bridges the gap between two kinds of genealogies of modernity employed by literary historians.

She begins with a rewarding chapter in which she proposes that the genealogies of Christ, being both kingly and genetic/dynastic, were the model for the chronicles read by, respectively, Arthur

Spenser enjoys a similar freedom when he weaves together mythography, chronicle history, genealogy, and natural history.

3] Richard Halpern, The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital (Cornell UP, 1991), David Lee Miller, The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the

Quoss-Moore, University of Arkansas. ‘Fetching Genealogies in Spenser’s Antiquitee of Faery lond’. ... I argue that Spenser uses the word ‘fetch’ in the sense of ‘derive’ (OED, ‘fetch’, 6c-d) to weave his fairy genealogy into the main

James Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter, eds., Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation (Open Humanities Press, 2023).